Attorneys for Johns Hopkins Hospital and a plaintiffs' group have settled on a dollar figure in the case of the gynecologist who was secretly filming patients during examinations, but some victims say their trauma will last well beyond the complex litigation.

Hackers who stole the personal data of about 4.5 million patients of hospital group Community Health Systems Inc broke into the company's computer system by exploiting the "Heartbleed" internet bug, making it the first known large-scale cyber attack using...

Personal information on a number of Easton Hospital patients — including their names and Social Security numbers — was stolen in a cybertheft that likely originated in China, the hospital's parent company announced Monday.
According to...

St. Cloud Regional Medical Center is among the hospitals owned by a company whose computer systems were breached this year, resulting in the theft of the personal information of about 4.5 million people, authorities said.
Chinese hackers stole the...

A cyberattack on Community Health Systems Inc., a private hospital network, in April and June resulted in the theft of non-medical data of 4.5 million Americans, including names, addresses, birthdates, phone numbers and Social Security numbers,...

The FBI has warned that healthcare industry companies are being targeted by hackers, publicizing the issue following an attack on U.S. hospital group Community Health Systems Inc that resulted in the theft of millions of patient records.
"The FBI has observed malicious actors targeting healthcare related systems, perhaps for the purpose of obtaining Protected Healthcare Information (PHI) and/or Personally Identifiable Information (PII)," the agency said in a "Flash" alert obtained by Reuters on...

The parent company of Easton Hospital said Monday it has agreed to pay more than $89 million to settle a government investigation over billing practices at 119 of its facilities.
The U.S. Department of Justice since 2011 had been investigating whether Community Health Systems hospitals charged government health plans, such as Medicare and Medicaid, for expensive short-stay admissions via emergency rooms that should have been billed as outpatient or observation cases. The probe covered the period from...

As retailers began to layoff some of the employees they hired for the holiday season, planned layoffs across the nation increased in January, said outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas on Thursday.
But not in Florida, there were 812 announced layoffs compared with 2,892 in January 2013 -- a 72 percent decrease from a year ago.
The retail jobs sector continues to be strong in South Florida and statewide. In December, Broward County added 6,300 retail jobs, an increase of 5.9 percent, according...

The parent company to Easton Hospital received federal approval of its purchase of another for-profit hospital chain Wednesday. The expanded company, Community Health Systems, is now the largest hospital chain by number of facilities in the country. The Federa

Ted Forstmann, a longtime Wall Street financier and philanthropist who was a major player during the wave of corporate takeovers in the 1980s, including the battle for RJR Nabisco in 1988, died Sunday. He was 71.
The cause was brain cancer, according to a statement from sports marketing giant IMG, where Forstmann served as chairman and chief executive. He was the senior founding partner of the investment firm Forstmann Little & Co.
Forstmann Little, which was founded in 1978, completed leveraged buyouts...

The battle between Community Health Systems and Tenet Healthcare Corp. remains on full boil. Community Health, the parent company of Easton Hospital, changed its hostile offer for Tenet to an all-cash deal, even as Community Health confronts a nasty federal la